Cook with Us

Hi all!

How about another “these girls must be slightly mental” post? :-p

Sooo, I just got back from visiting with Eirini. This time around, my visit was planned; a couple of weeks back we scheduled a day trip to Dion (where Eirini first got the idea for Psyche, remember?), so on Thursday evening I, once again, found myself on a plane flying to Thessaloniki.

We’ve had an amazing time (but then again, we always do, so no surprise there); we caught up with each other’s news in person, got to work on the project, teased each other mercilessly and laughed quite a lot. :-p

We will be talking about Dion on our next post though, because today we are talking about something entirely different (and completely irrelevant), but still a lot of fun; at least for us it was. We haven’t mentioned so before, but both Eirini and I enjoy cooking; we’ve been wanting to cook together for ages now, but we never managed to do so before. But finally we did it!

One of the things we wanted to make was a Charlotte cake; see, Charlotte cakes have a sort of special meaning for us. They are a Victorian dish and we happen to be working on a Victorian project (aside from this one) and our main heroine is called Charlotte. So, how could we resist? :-p

So we went on and made one. Of course, we had to improvise a bit since we couldn’t find berries or strawberries or any of the fruit commonly used to make them, but it was still all right (=edible). Apparently cherries don’t work that well. ;-)

Once the Charlotte cake was done, we went on and cooked some more. We are both fans of the “Hunger Games” series, so when we came across “The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook” by Emily Ansara Baines, we were pretty excited.

We tried two of the recipes included in it:

“The Boy with the Bread: Hearty Raisin Nut Bread”, which is awesome! Very easy to make, since the instructions are extremely detailed, and it tastes amazing! We even fed some ducks at Dion with it and they agreed too!  :-p

“Katniss’s favorite Lamb Stew with Dried Plums”. This was an easy recipe despite the many ingredients. Once again we improvised though and used beef, since neither of us likes lamp. It was still very tasty, so what does it matter? And yes, we did eat a stew in July!

Aaaand that’s about it for today; the next entry will be coming shortly and it will be all about Dion!

Goodbye until then!